Walsura dehiscens
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Description
Trees to 9(–13) m tall, girth to 25(–40) cm; outer bark smooth and grey; inner bark pale yellow.
Leaves 25–30 (–35) cm long, 2-jugate; petiole 4.5–9.5 cm long, 1.5–2(–2.5) mm thick, ± terete and slightly flattened adaxially near the very base, sub-densely lenticellate, very sparsely puberulous; petiolule ± terete, (of distal pair leaflet) 0.7–1.4(–2.4) cm long and 0.6– 1.2 mm thick.
Inflorescences in axils of undeveloped or fully expanded leaves near the shoot apex or lower down, 1–1.7 cm long at anthesis, each a tightly compact thyrse, branched to first (to second) order, first-order branches up to 4 mm long, peduncle sparsely lenticellate, all parts densely puberulous with simple trichomes.
Flower hermaphrodite, not scented, just prior to opening cylindrical, 1.5–1.6 mm long, 1.2– 1.3 mm diam.
Petals 2.2–2.5 by 1–1.8 mm, glabrous on inside.
Fruit a 1- (or 2-) seeded capsule, longitudinally 4-winged (immature) to rhomboidal (in transverse section) to almost globose, 1.7–2.5 by 0.6–0.9 cm, green or glaucous in vivo, brown in sicco, puberulous with simple trichomes, pericarp 0.7–1 mm thick generally but up to 1.3 mm thick at the four edges, fibrous endocarp 0.13–0.18 mm thick, septum c. 0.18 mm thick between the two locules connected to pericarp at two opposite suture lines, capsule weakly septicidally dehiscent into 2 (or 4?) valves commencing at the distal end, the septum spliting into two membranes at dehiscence.